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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 7, 2012 | Christie's | London | The Art of The Surreal Evening Sale | 120 | $****** - ****** | A Maiden, a Widow and a Wife | |||
Jun 25, 2002 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art - Day Sale | 197 | $****** - ****** | Maiden, widow and a wife |
paintings
92 x 76 cm (36.22 x 29.92 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'max ernst 56' (lower right); signed, dated and titled '"a maiden a widow and a wife max ernst 1956"' (on the reverse)
Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York. William N. Copley, New York
his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 1979, lot l52. Private collection, USA, by whom acquired at the above sale. Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 2002, lot 197. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
New York, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, 1957. London, The Tate Gallery, Max Ernst, September - October 1961, no. 126. Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Max Ernst, December 1962 - March 1963, no. 97 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, March - April 1963. New York, The Jewish Museum, Max Ernst, Sculpture and Recent Paintings, March - April 1966, no. 5 (illustrated). Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Max Ernst, April - May 1971, no. XXIV (illustrated). New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim, Max Ernst: A Retrospective, February - April 1975, no. 248 (illustrated); this exhibition also travelled to Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Max Ernst, May - August 1975, no. 283 (illustrated). New York, Iolas Gallery - Brooks Jackson, inc., Max Ernst, May 1976. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst. Dream and Revolution, September 2008 - January 2009.
E. Petrová, Max Ernst, Prague, 1965, no. 61. J. Russell, Max Ernst, Life and Work, New York, 1967 (illustrated pl. 106). E. Quinn, Max Ernst, Boston, 1977, no. 360, p. 291 (illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst, Werke 1954-1963, Cologne, 1998, no. 3165, p. 63 (illustrated).
